Seasons greetings for the NEW year 2008. We hope that you have an awesome year !
We would just like to let you know we have launched a couple of new products in 2008 and thought we would just give you the heads up. SMS Training & SMS Surveys, see below for more details..
Our first product is SMS Training, having recognised the need for a new approach to staff training
and knowledge monitoring, we have an exciting, innovative and extremely powerful
mobile training tool. This SMS TRAINING tool empowers you to boost your reach and level of personal interaction with your staff and clients. SMS Training uses interactive SMS product related questions to increase the knowledge and brand awareness of your clients and staff.
Our second new product is SMS Surveys, Levering off the extensive understanding and use of SMS in the South African consumer market, Afridesign offers you a powerful INTERACTIVE SMS Dialog and Survey tool. SMS Surveys uses interactive SMS questions to probe client satisfaction levels and build meaningful reports for clients. SMS Surveys allow our clients to sample the opinions of a large number of people through an SMS dialogue which resembles an intelligent flow of conversation.
FACEBOOK What will it be in 40 Years Time
We look into the future to see what Facebook will hold in 40 years time.
Thursday, Sep 20, 2007; Posted: 11:10
Facebook the world wide phenomenon, it has taken the world by storm, and we got thinking what will facebook look like in 40 years time....
Journey with us as we take an intriguing look at the facebook to come.
URGENT WASPA Advisory
Unacceptable SMS Marketing Practices
Wednesday, April 11, 2007; Posted: 09:59
Introduction
There have been a number of incidents over the past few weeks of SMS marketing that is totally
outside the realms of acceptable behaviour in terms of the WASPA Code of Conduct and the
WASPA Advertising Rules, and above all, to the major detriment to all industry participants.
The purpose of this advisory is twofold:
To warn WASPA members who may be unaware of these incidents of their occurrence, so
as to try avoid any repetition and further damage to the industry; and
To avoid any WASPA members against whom a complaint may be brought, from arguing
that they were unaware of the practices of their information providers or that these practices
are errors or in any way unintentional.
It must be noted that many of the practices are, it seems, perpetrated by Information Providers,
rather than WASPA members directly. In addition, many of these Information Providers appear to
be based outside South Africa.
You are advised, if applicable, to immediately forward this Advisory to all your Information
Providers and also obtain positive indication from them that they have read, understood and will
fully abide by the contents of this Advisory.
Nevertheless, the WASPA Code of Conduct makes it clear that WASPA members can be held
responsible for the actions of their Information Providers (Clause 3.9) and this has been confirmed
in numerous decisions of WASPA Adjudicators.
Formatting of Promotional SMS Messages
Do not place spaces and/or carriage returns between the body-text and the price indication. The user
must not to have scroll down to see pricing. This practise has been declared deceptive and an
Information Provider has been suspended for doing so.
Active Number Harvesting
For example: Do not run competitions or similar to simply harvest numbers for non-competition use.
Any messages sent via such harvesting are considered spam by Adjudicators.
If a competition is held via radio, the announcement must indicate that users will be placed on a
distribution list.
Do not use a pre/post-paid mailbox for unsubscribe requests or any customer care issues. These
mailboxes only store 10 messages on average. A live operator must be used.
Use of International Gateways for MTs
WASPs are allowing their Information Providers to send MTs to subscribers from “cheap” non-South
African international gateways. IPs are placing wording in these SMSs that are in conflict with the
WASPA Code Of Conduct and various network rules.
WASPs then become liable for any use of a shortcode in an errant SMS.
Long Code Use
The WASPA Code of Conduct Committee has instructed the WASPA Adjudicators to draw a negative
inference regarding commercial SMS messages originating from Premium Rated long codes, if this has
the effect or possible effect of exposing consumers to costly mistakes or unintentional spending.
This is a potentially deceptive practice and WASPA members found to be using this practice, or
allowing their information providers to do so, will be subject to the institution of complaints.
There is still a child in all of us, I was in a meeting yesterday and stepped outside to take a call, and low and behold "tiny" snow flakes were falling, I ran back inside and screamed it is snowing! Immediately every body in the room jumped up & ran outside to see the SNOW. Can you believe it 20cm of Snow. Scroll down to see pictures..
Got you :) In today's busy world don't forget to play :)
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*Please note the above stories are not actual stories and are meant to be of a humorous nature providing joy and laughter to the work place.
ROAD NAME CHANGES AND NOW MIDRAND!
Tuesday, June 27, 2006; Posted: 10:51 a.m.
The following road names "Hans Strijdom & Hendrik Potgieter" are up for review, people can logon to the web and suggest new names that are more representative of current day South Africa, but these two roads are not the only things due for a name change!
MIDRAND has not escaped the spate of name changes over the last while. It was felt that the name MIDRAND was no longer representative of its situation and of the new South Africa.
After much deliberation and thought it was decided that MIDRAND will be know as "Inbatweenie".
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